Re: [cobalt-users] [RAQ4r] strange index page problem (maybe apache rather than RAQ?)

["Michael D. Schleif" <mds-resource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Witham wrote:
> 
> We are hosting a site for a large financial organization who want to link
> from their site to another portal page.
> 
> Their site works fine - their home page is at
> http://www.ourclient.com/index.html.
> 
> The have created a new folder /portal, in which they have placed two files,
> index.html and server.htm.  Index.htm is basically a frame which contains
> server.htm, which in turn calls the portal page from another server.
> 
> When anyone goes to http://www.ourclient.com/portal the intention was that
> index.html would open, containing the portal page from the other server
> within the frame.  It doesn't - we get 404 file not found for index.html.
> If we call http://www.ourclient.com/portal/index.html we get the same, but
> if we call http://www.ourclient.com/portal/server.htm we get the portal
> page, but without the frame that keeps the original site integrity.  (We
> also tried index.htm, but that doesn't work)
> 
> The portal developer has no problem with this site design working in other
> places, and it it believed that includes other servers running Apache.  Any
> input as to where to go from here from the list guru's would be much
> appreciated.

Are you running CGIWrap?

This will interfere with PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED, especially if
you're trying to do any URL redirection.

I could take a look, if you provide the real URL . . .

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